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Business Letters: formal letters written to people outside one’s healthcare facility for a variety of purposes
Career Assessments: tools such as questionnaires and surveys that you can use to find careers that will match your individual needs
Career Portfolio: a written record of career planning and preparation
Clinical information: section of a patient’s chart that begins with the patient’s medical history and includes all of the information about his or her health, medical conditions, and treatment
Competent: capable
Confidentiality: the legally protected right of patients to have their personal and medical information kept private
Dictation: a verbal recording describing a patient’s symptoms and the treatment given
Employability Skills: skills related to choosing a career, acquiring and keeping a job, changing jobs, and advancing in a career
Family Medical History: a record that includes major illnesses and surgeries of a patient’s close relatives, including parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and siblings
Health Informatics (HI): a group of careers that combines health information management and health information technology; workers design and develop information systems that improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of patient care
Health Informatics Services: career pathway that involves methods, devices, and resources used to acquire, store, retrieve, and work with healthcare and biomedical information
Health Information Management (HIM): a field of health informatics services that is responsible for assembling and organizing a patient’s health information to create a medical record
Health Information Technology: a field of health informatics services that focuses on the systems that are used to manage health information and the secure exchange of health information in a digital format
HOSA- Future Health Professionals: a career and technical student organization for future healthcare workers
Indispensable: absolutely necessary
Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team: a group of professionals from different health science training backgrounds working in coordination toward a common goal for the patient
Internship: practical work or training experience that allows students to apply what they have learned in class
Medical Coding: the act of assigning numbers to descriptions of a patient’s diseases, injuries, and treatments according to established codes
Medical History: a list all of the diseases and surgeries a patient has had, his or her current symptoms, results of examinations and diagnostic tests, treatments, and other health services
Memorandum: short, informal messages that are sent between people within an organization
Personal Identifying Information: information that is used to connect a patient to the correct record
Personal Traits: an individual’s unique combination of qualities and characteristics
Professional Look: the standards of appearance normally expected of a qualified person in a work environment
Résumé: a short, one-page document that contains your accomplishments and experiences and explains how these relate to a job in which you are interested review articles scientific papers that give an overview of a specific topic by summarizing the data and conclusions from several different studies
Technical Skills: the ability to perform tasks in a specific healthcare discipline or department
Telemedicine: a field of medicine in which communication and information technologies are used to provide medical services to patients in remote locations
Transcriptionist: a health information technician who types medical record information from a physician’s recorded dictation